In 1906, Joseph John Thomson won the Physics Noble Prize.
Date of Birth: 18 December 1856.
Died: 30 August 1940.
Nationality: British.
Education: Owens College, Trinity College, Cambridge (BA).
Known as: Plum pudding model, Discovery of the electron, Discovery of isotopes, Mass spectrometer invention, Electromagnetic mass, First m/e measurement, Proposed first waveguide, Gibbs–Thomson equation, Thomson scattering, Thomson problem, Coining term ‘delta ray’, Coining term ‘epsilon radiation’, Thomson (unit).
Awards: Smith’s Prize (1880), Royal Medal (1894), Hughes Medal (1902), Nobel Prize in Physics (1906), Elliott Cresson Medal (1910), Copley Medal (1914), Albert Medal (1915), Franklin Medal (1922), Faraday Medal (1925), Dalton Medal (1931).
Fields: Physics.
